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TWO WHEELED VEHICLE.

No. 288,757. Patented Nov. 20, 1883.

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UNITED STATES l JOHh C. EACH, OF HILLSDALE, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HENRY ALLES, OF SAME PLACE.

- TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

S PECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,757, dated November 20, 1883.

Application filed January 11. 1883,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN C. BACH, of Hillsdale, in the county of Hillsdale and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Road-Cart, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists, essentially, of the method of attaching the body of the cart to the shafts, so as to prevent the forward and backward rocking motion of the rider, due to the rising and falling motion of the horse.

It also consists of an improved cont-rivance of springs, all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved cart, except the wheels. Fig. 2 is a detail partly in side elevation and partly in section. Fig. 3 is a detail of the pivot-joint connection of the body with the hind cross-bar of the shafts. Fig. 4 is a detail of the springfastening.

I mount the body 0 so that the weight of the rider will cause the seat to balance (or thereabout) over the hind cross-bar, b, of the shafts, by pivoting or jointing the rear lower edge thereof to the said crossbar, as shown at (I, so that the rider may pivot or rock thereon in reverse of the motion of barb, made by the horse; and in order to permit the upand-down motion of the front crossbar, 6, without causing similar motion to the front part of the body, I connect the bottom of the body, at some distance back of the front end, to alight, straight, and flat spring, having a bow, h, at the rear end, and being jointed at the front end to the cross-bar by a short link, i, which is to compensate for the lengthening and shortening of the spring; but I may use a spring arranged crosswise between the shafts, instead of this spring y, if desired.

The aforesaid pivotal connection or joint between the body 0 and bar b consists in forming concavities or sockets in plates arranged upon the bar b, (one being disposed thereon near each side of the body,) in affixing to the bottom of the body, near its sides, plates pro- (Modem vidcd with projections or shoulders having lower rounded surfaces, which rest in the concavities or sockets of the plates, and in connecting together the plates in pairs by headed bolts passed through the same and the bottom of the body, and nutted on the lower side of the bar b. I also connect the front of the body to the front cross-bar, e, by the safetystrap is, for protection against back thrusts of the body by sudden forward lurches of the horse.

It is to be noted that with the body jointed or pivoted to the rear cross-bar and connected to the front cross-bar of said shafts, also by a jointed or swinging connection, permitting said bars of the shafts to have vertical play without having appreciable effect on the body, the latter will be entirely protected from the swing of the horse.

For connecting the shaft to the axle in a simple way and in a manner to make the cart ride easy, I propose to employ flat curved springs in, of two or more leaves, attached at the front end to the shafts a, just behind the front. cross-bar e, and resting on and clipped to the axle at the rear end, together with the safety -straps o. I propose to secure these springs to the axle by clips p, arranged diagonally across the axle, and the spring with a bearingblock, g, which will have a dowel-pin, as, passing through the spring into the axle. By the diagonal arrangement of the clip it is made to bear, by means of the block on the spring, directly over the axle on which the spring rests, which is much better than two clips straining the spring at each side of the axle. I propose to connect the other ends of these springs to the shafts by a clip, 8, embracing all of the plates, a bolt, 15, through all the plates and the shaft, and a clip, a, embracing the long plate, which is extended beyond the ends of the rest and bent up over them against the shaft, making a simple and substantial fastening.

The springs in rise only sufficient for the shafts to clear the axle, and the body is placed low down on the cross-bar b, so that the body will set very low, for convenience in getting in and out, and the body is free to rise and fall between the shafts at the front, as in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the spring 9 bowing down and drawing thelink 'i to or past the vertical position. The linki (here shown as made of two bars) may be the ordinary solid side-spring shackle.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a two-wheeled vehicle, the body pivoted or jointed to oscillate at its rear end upon the rear cross-bar of the shafts, in combination with the centrally-arranged single spring,with one end secured to the under side of the body and its forward end shackled or jointed to the under side of the forward cross-bar of the shafts, whereby the body is protected from the swing of the horse, and supported upon, and the connection of the same at its forward end to the shafts is effected by, a single spring, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a two-wheeled vehicle, the body or seat, in combination with and pivoted at its rear end to oscillate upon the rear cross-bar of the shafts, and connected at its forward end to the front cross-bar of the shafts by a single spring, and with the side springs secured to the axle and to the shafts forward of the axle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN 0. EACH.

WVitnesses:

W. H. FANNING, M. MOINTYRE. 

